Ruchi Soya Sep ’12 sales at Rs 5,427.23 crore

 

Ruchi Soya Industries has reported a sales turnover of Rs 5,427.23 crore and a net profit of Rs 65.66 crore for the quarter ended Sep ’12. For the quarter ended Sep 2011 the sales turnover was Rs 6,082.29 crore and net profit was Rs 3.78 crore.

Quarterly Results of Ruchi Soya Industries ——– in Rs. Cr. ——–

Sep ’11 Jun ’12 Sep ’12 Sales Turnover 6,082.29 5,007.91 5,427.23 Other Income 10.84 67.74 83.16 Total Income 6,093.13 5,075.65 5,510.39 Total Expenses 6,045.25 4,860.81 5,362.07 Operating Profit 37.04 147.10 65.16 Profit On Sale Of Assets — — — Profit On Sale Of Investments — — — Gain/Loss On Foreign Exchange — — — VRS Adjustment — — — Other Extraordinary Income/Expenses — — — Total Extraordinary Income/Expenses — — — Tax On Extraordinary Items — — — Net Extra Ordinary Income/Expenses — — — Gross Profit 47.88 214.84 148.32 Interest 3.72 116.59 18.59 PBDT 44.16 98.25 129.73 Depreciation 34.02 34.63 34.27 Depreciation On Revaluation Of Assets — — — PBT 10.14 63.62 95.46 Tax 6.36 21.02 29.80 Net Profit 3.78 42.60 65.66 Prior Years Income/Expenses — — — Depreciation for Previous Years Written Back/ Provided — — — Dividend — — — Dividend Tax — — — Dividend (%) — — — Earnings Per Share 0.11 1.28 1.97 Book Value — — — Equity 66.60 66.69 66.69 Reserves — — — Face Value 2.00 2.00 2.00

Finally, Google’s ‘X Phone’ Takes Real Shape

Bangalore: For the past few weeks, the tech arena has been heating up with rumors of an ultimate Android, Google’s X Phone. Google has finally decided to end the speculations by making clear that the Motorola made X Phone will be announced at its annual Google I/O conference in May.

The details of the forthcoming Google and Motorola initiative got revealed through a 600-page forum, picked up by one of the Internet sites, Droid Life. Even though the X Phone, as known now, would make its formal debut in mid-May at the developer conference, the phone isn’t expected to hit the markets until July 8.

The device caught in the limelight due to its rumored hi specs and its proposed release across all carriers at the same time, unlike the other flagships

As per the reports, the Motorola X Phone will not be considered as a “Nexus” handset and the company ensures to release the product with a few preloaded applications and games. Customers purchasing this model especially through Google Play will have unlocked bootloaders and can uninstall the software, if the rumors prove to be true eventually. Unfortunately, those customers buying through Verizon will have to unlock the bootloader by paying $15 fee monthly.

The Android Smartphone will be offered to “all carriers”, which might include its big four providers or other players as per the reports in the U.S. On account of this, the Verizon model is expected to fetch $299 with a contract, but the other versions could be sold unsubsidized.

There’s sufficient amount of time before Google I/O starts off on May 15. Hence, we can expect a lot more surprises, rumors and reports regarding the details on the X Phone.

Ranked – 4 Most Loved Operating Systems In The World

Bangalore: A study conducted by ChangeWave Research shows us which mobile Operating System is rated as the best one by the users. 4,061 people were surveyed and the results are quite amazing:

The survey looked at customer satisfaction based upon the Operating System consumers have on their Smartphones.

So here are the 4 best operating systems ranked by consumer satisfaction.

#4 RIM- BlackBerry OS: 

The BlackBerry OS which is developed by RIM (Research In Motion) was fourth. Only a quarter of its users were satisfied with its performance. A minor 26 percent of the BlackBerry users stated that they were satisfied with their phone. BB faces stiff competition in the market from Google’s android and Apple’s iOS. With the launch of its new OS “BBX,” later this month, BlackBerry can do some justice to its loyalists.

 

 
#3 Google’s Android!:

Yes, you have read it correctly Google’s Android rates third in the survey with only 48 percent of its users stating that they are very satisfied with their phone. This means that more than half the Android using population feels that the operating system is not up to the mark and needs improvement. This should raise concerns for the Tech giant as the Smartphone market has not yet tilted in their favor yet. It is not a surprise as most Smartphones roll out of production with the older version of the Android called Gingerbread even though upgrades in the software like Icecream Sandwich and Jellybean 4.1 & 4.2 have already been released.

#2 Windows Phone:

The key beneficiary here is last century’s leader in the mobile manufacturing – Nokia. The Finnish manufacturers had announced a partnership with Microsoft on February 11, 2011 making Windows Phone the primary operating system for Nokia, a partnership that they will cherish as 53 percent of the Windows Phone users have stated that they are very satisfied with their phone.

Now it seems clear why the new Nokia Lumia launched with the Windows Phone 8 has sold out. Microsoft will be very satisfied with their effort only behind another giant in this category which has been leading the domain for a long time, Apple.

#1 iOS Apple:

Apple is the clear leader here (no surprise), with 71 percent of the users saying that they are Very satisfied with their phone. As of September 12, 2012, Apple’s App Store contained more than 700,000 iOS applications, which have collectively been downloaded more than 30 billion times and as of June 2012 more than 400 million devices had been sold worldwide. That accounts for a lot of happy users but the surprise package of windows phone raises eyebrows as to how it will grasp the market in the next quarter.

 

iPhone wins 51 percent of U.S. smartphone sales, says report

Apple snared more than 50 percent of U.S. smartphone sales last quarter, says Kantar, though Android remained dominant across Europe and the world.

Apple’s iOS continues to outshine Android, at least in the United States, according to data released today by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

For the final quarter of 2012, the iPhone won 51.2 percent of all U.S. smartphone sales. In second place, Android soaked up around 44.8 percent of U.S. sales, leaving Microsoft’s Windows Phone with 2.6 percent.

Apple’s flagship platform also scored well in Japan, proving tops among two-thirds of Japanese smartphone buyers.

“Apple’s continual improvement is thanks to both the iPhone 5 and older models attracting various customer groups, from repeat Apple buyers, first-time smartphone buyers. and those coming from other smartphone brands,” Kantar analyst Mary-Ann Parlato said in a statement.

Over the past year, 36 percent of iOS sales in the U.S. came from users of other smartphones, notably Android. The percentage of Android users jumping ship to the iPhone was 19 percent in 2012, compared with 9 percent in 2011, according to Kantar.

Verizon subscribers were especially eager to hop onto iOS. A full 59 percent of iPhone-buying Verizon customers came from other brand phones, while 30 percent had used Android specifically. In comparison, 15 percent of AT&T users who bought an iPhone jumped from a different platform, while only 6 percent were former Android users.

Among other iPhone buyers, 35 percent upgraded from a previous model, while 30 percent were buying their first smartphone, Kantar said.

Android is still No. 1 throughout the world, including key countries such as the U.K., China, Spain, Australia, and Germany, according to the report. But it’s lost some of its fire.

“At the end of 2012, the global OS picture shows Android on top, but clearly the rate of growth it experienced over the past year is beginning to slow as easy wins from first-time smartphone buyers begin to reduce,” Kantar analyst Dominic Sunnebo said in a statement.

Samsung is tops in the U.K., with 35 percent of smartphone sales last quarter. But Apple is catching up with 32 percent.

Finally, Microsoft’s Windows Phone is gaining some traction in Europe. For the quarter, Windows Phone won 5.9 percent of smartphone sales in Britain, up from 2.2 percent a year ago, and 13.9 percent in Italy, up from 2.8 percent the prior year.

“It has been far slower than Microsoft would have liked, but Windows Phone is now starting to gain respectable shares in a number of key European countries,” Sunnebo said. “However, its performance in the Chinese and U.S. markets remains underwhelming. As the two largest smartphone markets in the world, these remain key challenges for Microsoft to overcome during 2013.”

The data comes from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech USA’s consumer panel, which conducts more than 250,000 interviews per year in the United States. This report focused strictly on sales rather than market share.

Former Microsoft exec says CEO Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader for the world’s largest software company but holds his grip on it by systematically forcing out any rising manager who challenges his authority, claims a former senior executive who has written a book about his time at the company.

“For Microsoft to really get back in the game seriously, you need a big change in management,” said Joachim Kempin, who worked at Microsoft between 1983 and 2002, overseeing the sales of Windows software to computer makers for part of that time. “As much as I respect Steve Ballmer, he may be part of that in the end.”

As a senior vice president in charge of a crucial part of the company’s business with direct access to co-founder Bill Gates, Kempin is the most senior former Microsoft executive to write a book critical of the company, which is famous for the loyalty of its ex-employees.

His criticism echoes that of investor David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital, who called for Ballmer to step down in 2011.

Kempin left Microsoft under a cloud in 2002 as some of the aggressive contracts he crafted with PC makers were seen as fodder for the U.S. government’s antitrust prosecution of the company, which started in 1998 and was largely resolved by 2002.

His book, titled ‘Resolve and Fortitude: Microsoft’s “secret power broker” breaks his silence’, is scheduled to be published on Tuesday. He talked with Reuters by phone on Monday.

DEFEND THE THRONE

Kempin charges Ballmer with purposefully ousting any executives with potential to wrest him from the CEO seat, which he has occupied since 2000.

He said he saw the process first with Richard Belluzzo, a former Hewlett-Packard (HPQ.N) executive credited with launching the Xbox game console who rose to chief operating officer at Microsoft but left after only 14 months in the post, in the same year Kempin left.

“He (Belluzzo) had no room to breathe on the top. When you work that directly with Ballmer and Ballmer believes ‘maybe this guy could someday take over from me’, my God, you will have less air to breathe, that’s what it comes down to.”

Microsoft representatives declined comment. Attempts to reach Belluzzo were not successful.

Several leading executives, touted by outsiders at one time or another as potential successors to Ballmer, have left the company in the last few years, most recently Windows unit chief Steven Sinofsky, who departed in November.

Before Sinofsky, Windows and online head Kevin Johnson went to run Juniper Networks Inc (JNPR.N), Office chief Stephen Elop went to lead phone maker Nokia Oyj (NOK1V.HE), while Ray Ozzie, the software guru Gates designated as Microsoft’s big-picture thinker, left to start his own project.

“Ozzie is a great software guy, he knew what he was doing. But when you see Steve (Ballmer) and him on stage where he (Ozzie) opposed Steve, it was Steve’s way or the highway,” said Kempin.

Kempin said he spoke to Ballmer around two years ago and expressed his concerns about his management style and direction of the company, but has seen no changes since. He said he sent Ballmer and Gates copies of his new book but has yet to get a reply.

“Steve is a very good business guy, but make him a chief operating officer, not a CEO, and your business is going to go gangbusters,” said Kempin. “I respect that guy (Ballmer), but there are some limitations in what he can and can’t do and maybe he hasn’t realized them himself.”

MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
In his book, Kempin writes about how Microsoft foresaw the major moves in technology in the last decade, but bungled its entry into tablets, phones and social media, ceding leadership in the technology world to Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and others.

“They missed all the opportunities they were talking about when I was still in the company. Tablets, phones…we had a tablet going, we had tablet software when Windows XP came out, it was never followed up properly,” said Kempin.

He also claims the decline of PCs is partly due to Microsoft’s mismanagement of hardware makers, an area that Kempin oversaw at Microsoft.

“Just think about the insult of Microsoft coming out with a tablet themselves, trying to mimic Apple, and now they are going to come out with a notebook on top of it,” said Kempin, referring to Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet and soon-to-be-released Surface running Windows Pro.

Several PC makers went public with their unease about Microsoft’s decision to make its own computers last year.